Zion Crime

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Recent Crime News

• Police Investigate Death Of North Chicago Toddler

  Saturday May 26 | via CBS Local 

  NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. -For a second time this month, the Lake County Coroner's Office is conducting a death investigation of a small child.

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• Attorney: Lake County Is A Hotbed Of False Convictions

  Monday May 21 | via CBS Local 

  Bennie Starks , Defense Attorney , False Convictions , Frederick Reckling , Hezekiah Whitfield , Holly Staker , James Edwards , Jed Stone , Jerry Hobbs , Jorge Torrez , Juan Rivera , Krystal Tobias , Lake County , Laura Hobbs , Regine Schlesinger , Waukegan , Wrongful Convictions WAUKEGAN, Ill. 2 comments

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• Ex-Marine from Va. charged in 2005 Illinois murders

  Wednesday May 16 | via Washington Examiner 

  A former Marine corporal convicted of rape in Arlington and potentially facing the death penalty in a 2009 slaying at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall has been charged with stabbing two young girls to death in Illinois in 2005.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Illinois, Death Penalty, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Zion, IL

• New Suspects Charged In 2 High-Profile Lake County M...

  Wednesday May 16 | via CBS Local 

  Amanda Snell , Bob Roberts , Frederick Recking , Hezekiah Whitfield , James Edwawrds , Jerry Hobbs , Jorge Torrez , Krystal Tobias , Lake County , Lake County State's Attorney's Office , Laura Hobbs , Virginia , Waukegan , Zion WAUKEGAN, Ill.

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• Dawn Patrol: Wife of man shot by police sues; pensio...

  Wednesday May 16 | via Daily Herald 

  These are family photos provided by the Zion Police Department Monday, May 9, 2005, showing Krystal Tobias, 9, and Laura Hobbs, 8, who were reported missing Sunday, May 8, 2005, and found murdered Monday morning near their home in Zion.

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• Man imprisoned in Virginia charged with killing two ...

  Tuesday May 15 | via Chicago Sun-Times 

  A man already serving five life sentences in a Virginia prison has been charged with first-degree murder for the 2005 stabbings of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and Krystal Tobias, 9. Jorge Torrez was charged with the crimes some seven years after Laura's father, Jerry Hobbs, was first charged with killing his daughter and her friend.

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• New suspects charged by Lake County prosecutors in H...

  Tuesday May 15 | via Daily Herald 

  Two men have been charged separately in a pair of high-profile Lake County murder cases that previously focused on other suspects, authorities announced today.

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• Rape charges dropped against Starks, decades after c...

  Tuesday May 15 | via Daily Herald 

  Sexual assault charges that sent a man to prison for 20 years were formally dropped Tuesday morning by the Lake County state's attorney's office.

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• New charges in Lake County murder cases

  Monday May 14 | via The Times 

  Prosecutors charged a Virginia prisoner on Tuesday in the 2005 murders of two girls found stabbed in a northern Illinois forest preserve.

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• Man Gets 37 Years For Stabbing Girlfriend To Death

  Wednesday May 9 | via CBS Local 

  Trent Lee has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Nichelle McNeal CHICAGO - Trent Lee stabbed his girlfriend nine times with two knives while they were at a party in Zion on Oct.

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• Three charged after Waukegan shooting inured one

  Tuesday May 8 | via Daily Herald 

  Michael Ingersoll, 22, of Zion, was also arrested following the foot chase, Guzman said. 1 comment

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• Zion Man Faces Murder, Kidnapping Charges

  Tuesday May 8 | via CBS Local 

  CHICAGO - A man has been arrested in Lake County on charges that he murdered a woman in Georgia and kidnapped another to make a cross-country dash up north.

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• Dawn Patrol: Murder, kidnapping suspects arrested in...

  Tuesday May 8 | via Daily Herald 

  Cristian De La O Hernandez is being held on a murder warrant out of DeKalb, Ga., and other charges in Lake County.

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• Two arrested for murder, kidnapping

  Monday May 7 | via Lake County News-Sun 

  A weeklong investigation into a murder and kidnapping in Georgia led police to a motel in Beach Park where two suspects were arrested without incident and the kidnapping victim, who had texted her location to a friend, was freed.

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• Suspects in Georgia murder, kidnapping located at Be...

  Monday May 7 | via Daily Herald 

  Cristian de la O Hernandez, 22, is being held on a Murder warrant out of DeKalb, Georgia.

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  Related Topix: Beach Park, IL, Lake County, IL, Zion, IL, Dekalb County, IL

• Lake County Task Force Targets Underage Drinking

  Monday May 7 | via Patch.com 

  A Across Lake County, health professionals, law enforcement agents and volunteers are working behind the scenes to target youths' alcohol consumption and drug abuse.

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  Related Topix: Lake County, IL, Deerfield, IL, Illinois, Lake Forest, IL, Zion, IL

• Task Force Grew From Deerfield Tragedy

  Thursday May 3 | via Patch.com 

  A 2007 Deerfield tragedy has spruued health professionals, law enforcement agents and volunteers accross Lake County to work behind the scenes to target youths' alcohol consumption and drug abuse.

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